Lancaster daily intelligencer. [volume] (Lancaster, Pa.) 1864-1928, 1887-06-08
ISskly Intalligsnoer
LANCASTER, JUNE 8. 1857.

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LANcAsTER. JUNE 8. 1851.
That Conspiracy to XIII.
Tho Philadelphia Press says that Rufus
:, Shapley holds the same view that the /
maintains in regard to the
Iu1aciency Of the meeting Of the Senate to |
witness its presidents signature to the rev.
Cnns bin. This opinion was communicated
" TIE Press reporter to Attorney General
Kirkpatrick, who, after consultation with |
Governor Beaver, declared that it wash
Dound. No reason was given for this opin-
lon, save that the Senate could only be
called together to consider executive bust.
nsos, while this was legislative business.
We consider this reason to be very poor
c1e, and 1t intensiles our suspicion that
this state administration is hostile to the
lovenue bill, and has deliberately plotted
for it, destruction. 1t is being penned
IN . very small hole, which will be hot
one, when it undertakes to have
this revenue bill, that is universally de-
uanded, fail for the reason given for its
failure. The declaration that the great
state of Pennsylvania cannot find remedy
for an omitted signature to law, which is
claimed to have been accidentally omitted,
puts the state in too ridiculous plight to
b patiently endured. Governor Beaver
discovered that the president Of the Senate
had not signed the revenue bill and he
Immediately proceeded to make this
failure effective in killing the bill. Evi-
IDENTIFY he did not love it. Clearly he
wanted it killed, and he refuses now to
call an extra session, though the legislators
offer to serve for nothing, and although he
says an extra session is the only cure.
And he refuses the simple solution which
We have suggested in the assembling of the
J. GonoteEfone. He declares he cannot as.
g0emble it save for executive business.
Even though this be 80, which it is not,
what is the signature to law but an exec.
utive act ? The governor says he cannot
sign because the president of the Senate
has not; wherefore then can he not call
the Senate together that its president may
do this executive act in its presence as the
constitution requires, 80 that the governor
may perform the executive act of signing
and making the bill law?
We are not sure but that the president
Of the Senate may call it together to wit
ness his signature. 1t does not seem mate
rial how the Senate assemblies SO that it
gets together and organizes and witnesses
the signature Of its president to the law
already passed, which signature has been
accidentally or wrongfully omitted.
Mr.. Shapley declares his decided convic.
tion that the signature was maliciOusly
omitted through conspiracy hired by the
corporations whom the bill taxes. This
conspiracy could not have been made
effective without the action Of the COVER
nor, in detecting the omitted signature and
giving it fatal influence not legitimately
due to 1t. How could the conspiratOrs
know that the governor would note the
omission, or that, il he did, it would cause
him to withhold his signature, when if
he had signed and had the seal of the COM
monwealth put upon the law, the courts
would have maintained its validity? Mr..
6hapley's accusation strikes high; but
there seems to be plenty Of powder to send
It high and scatter it wide.
It is to be noted with interest in this
connection, that the governor expresses
poor opinion of the virtue of the slain reve.
nue. bill. The Philadelphia Times reports
him as saying that the insurance com.
panies, whose taxes it reduces, are at the
bottom OF the pressure for the extra ses-
sion.
He further says that the assessments in
the counties have already been made for
this year and the act would be of no finan-
cial value to them until next year. He oh
jects to the law that it would provoke much
litigation from the powerful interests that
II Affects. He declares that it would have
been failure SO far as producing greater
state revenue is concerned. 1t is therefore
very evident that the governor was not an
enthusiastic admirer of the new bill and
that he knitted it without regret il not with
absolute pleasure. Hisjudgment NAV hon.
ostly be against it; though it would
bs strange, were it 20, since the
opinion OF the people, outside the
o,rporations, seems to be unanimously
epr It. But the fact probably is that the
Govognor's judgment has been controlled.
ri his act dictated. by the powerful chiefs
~ bis party, who have secured the same
- from the corporations that they oh
1nlned from the Standard Oil company fol
1lling the Billingsley bill. The gathering
lhe1s point clearly to the conclusion tha
- omia1ion OF President Smiths sigma
~ ww carefully secured, and its conse
NnGncss carefully arranged, by Republican
soagty chiefs.
4 Great Edacatieasl Event.
Next week will witness ono OF the most
memorable educational events in the history
e hbclty, namely, the centennial exercises
r ISAnklin and Marshall college. Distin.
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